Space Corolla – Burbuja De Cemento
Beware of the talented, imaginative kids you leave alone in a city! They have the potential to either destroy it or enable it with the greatest of stories. Sure, not everyone will do something this dramatic. The powers that be have flipped through the history books, too. They know who carries out revolutions. That’s why they’d rather have the young dreamers fall prey to boredom. Once they’re old and flabby, they can finally tell them the truth.
The world belongs to the dreamers and those who are not satisfied with what is around them. Deciding to do something about it is opting to go crazy. Once you do, the only way forward is to create or destroy. Think that’s too hard to handle? There’s always a desk job and a lonely bar at the end of the day just waiting for you. Nature is unforgiving for those who turn their back on dreaming.
Space Corolla is a group of modern Caribbean rockers with anxieties, a bit of hope and a knack for tricky, whirling math-rock tactics. The anxiety of “Burbuja De Cemento” is that their dreams will get eaten up by the city. The hope is that their efforts will keep the lights on. As for the music itself, “Burbuja De Cemento” may contain the complexity of math-rock, but it’s built on punk attitude and even poppy hooks which make an appearance here.
Angry Saints – Man Afraid Of His Horses
Civilisation was thought off to be such a great idea that Empires of old were exported throughout the world at great expense for the people being forcefully civilised and with great rewards in store for the people holding the whip and the sword. Look at us now. Can’t you travel across the world and find nearly the same things? Didn’t they establish a global standard?
What it also did was make the world safer, as well as more boring. The ones who resisted, contrary to what was said, weren’t doing this merely out of a sense of pride or duty toward the old way of living. North American Indian tribes, for example, also really liked hunting, fighting and seeking adventure. The Mayans and the Aztecs saw the world as an endless fight between the forces of good and evil in which they were involved. Man, they’d be bored in 2024.
Angry Saints is a Spanish rock band that’s constantly polishing and updating its sound. In “Man Afraid Of His Horses,” the group manages to sound almost like DEVO, playing country rock and writing about a world condemned to change. Angry Saints’ delivery is strong, and their vision is clear. The story, on the other hand, could as well be one about rock n’ roll itself. Everything got safer, and the people fighting the good fight were killed off by boredom.
